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riversedge

(73,246 posts)
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 07:49 AM Sep 30

'Hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy': NYT dumps on Trump as it endorses Harris

Source: raw story


Brad Reed September 30, 2024 7:46AM ET



In the very first line of its endorsement of Harris, the Times argued that "it is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump."

The editors then went on to document Trump's assorted moral and ethical failures.

"He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest," they wrote. "He has proved himself temperamentally unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he most lacks. Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of the president: his many criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in policy and his increasingly bizarre cast of associates."


The editors argued that this lengthy list of disqualifying characteristics by itself should be enough for voters to support Harris's campaign, but they also made an affirmative case for the vice president as well.....................................





Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-nyt-endorsement/







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'Hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy': NYT dumps on Trump as it endorses Harris (Original Post) riversedge Sep 30 OP
You stupid fucks. SamKnause Sep 30 #1
Actually I believe The NY Times did endorse Hillary, but bashed her continually JohnSJ Sep 30 #4
Exactly. SamKnause Sep 30 #5
So, the editorial dept at the 'Gray Lady' had it's Dick Cheny moment of clarity. marble falls Sep 30 #2
Now keep running those Ross Douthat and Bret Stephens columns BeyondGeography Sep 30 #3
There must be a diner in Skowhegan, Maine where displacedvermoter Sep 30 #6
Very surprised the headline didn't read: Fiendish Thingy Sep 30 #7
"Hard to imagine a newspaper more unworthy" is my take ArkansasDemocrat1 Sep 30 #8
The NYT Biglinda 52 Sep 30 #9
All "editorial" decisions are made by the sales execs and owners FakeNoose Sep 30 #13
Tells me only that they figured out which way the wind is blowing. usonian Sep 30 #10
He was unworthy in 2016, you fucks. Novara Sep 30 #11
Watch as they continue to report BaronChocula Sep 30 #12

SamKnause

(13,847 posts)
1. You stupid fucks.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 07:53 AM
Sep 30

Where have you been the last 9 years ???

Every newspaper in this country should have endorsed Hillary.

Did they ??? NO !!!

Every newspaper should have endorsed Biden.

Did they ??? NO !!!

Every newspaper today should be endorsing Kamala.

Have they ??? NO !!!

Fuck you and your both sides bullshit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JohnSJ

(96,719 posts)
4. Actually I believe The NY Times did endorse Hillary, but bashed her continually
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:13 AM
Sep 30

so much that endorsement meant very little

Fiendish Thingy

(18,654 posts)
7. Very surprised the headline didn't read:
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 08:59 AM
Sep 30

“Despite her rumoured mental disability, NYT editorial board endorses Harris”.

Biglinda 52

(87 posts)
9. The NYT
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 10:14 AM
Sep 30

Is no longer relevant as is any legacy media ever since they fired all their journalists and focused on the bottom line.

usonian

(14,284 posts)
10. Tells me only that they figured out which way the wind is blowing.
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 11:55 AM
Sep 30

Like Helene. Hard to ignore, but they did for a damn long time.
Now comes the fault-finding.

Times research staff is busy reading the Daily Caller for facts, no doubt.

BaronChocula

(2,519 posts)
12. Watch as they continue to report
Mon Sep 30, 2024, 01:48 PM
Sep 30

his serial transgressions as individual events in a vacuum, with kid gloves, unrelated to a damaged and dangerous psyche that continues to loom as a threat to the country.

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